Fedora 15 : mediawiki-1.16.4-58.fc15 (2011-5848)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 53567

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update brings mediawiki to version 1.16.4, which is the latest stable release at the moment, but currently also the only supported and recommended release by the mediawiki developer community.

Further changes :

- some simple wiki management functionality was added :

- mw-createinstance <path> creates a wiki instance under <path>, which is autoupgraded upon package updates.

- any wiki path entered in /etc/mediawiki/instances will be autoupgraded upon package updates.

- /var/www/wiki is entered into this list automatically, but you can remove it if you don't want this instance to be autoupgraded.

- opensearch and suggestions are enabled by default

- several bug fixes (see changelog).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected mediawiki package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=614065

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620226

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=644325

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=662402

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=667201

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=674456

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=682281

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696361

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697434

http://www.nessus.org/u?7bc2ee23

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 53567

File Name: fedora_2011-5848.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/27/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:15, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mediawiki

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/23/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-2787, CVE-2010-2788, CVE-2011-0003, CVE-2011-0047, CVE-2011-1578, CVE-2011-1579, CVE-2011-1580

BID: 42019, 42024, 46108, 47354

FEDORA: 2011-5848